Keenspot

by **bunnyThor** on Mon Sep 01, 2003 6:27 pm

When are you going to add El Goonish Shive to Keenspot? Dan's art maybe reminiscent of first-year Sluggy, but he's also got that first-year Sluggy energy and insanity while still writing real stories with real characters that the readers care about.

With It's Walky and Avalon drawing to a close, this comic would fit nicely into both the young superhero slot and the high school soap opera slot left in their wake.

Remember that's http://www.elgoonishshive.com/index.php on your FM dial!

by **Chris Crosby** on Mon Sep 01, 2003 7:00 pm

We invited EL GOONISH SHIVE and Dan gladly accepted. Look for it on Keenspot proper soon.

by **Won-Tolla** on Mon Sep 01, 2003 8:37 pm

Chris Crosby wrote:Look for it on Keenspot proper

As opposed to Keenspot improper?

by **Chris Crosby** on Mon Sep 01, 2003 8:54 pm

Won-Tolla wrote:As opposed to Keenspot improper?

Indeed!

by **bunnyThor** on Mon Sep 01, 2003 10:00 pm

Chris Crosby wrote:We invited EL GOONISH SHIVE and Dan gladly accepted. Look for it on Keenspot proper soon.

Day-ammm!
I've got the power!

by **LCARS** on Mon Sep 01, 2003 10:25 pm

I also noticed that Zebra Girl made the cut! I smile!

by **scrubbo** on Tue Sep 02, 2003 8:35 am

What I want to know is when are they gonna Spot the Spork?

by **John T** on Tue Sep 02, 2003 9:02 am

scrubbo wrote:What I want to know is when are they gonna Spot the Spork?

Sometimes I hate you.

by **showler** on Tue Sep 02, 2003 10:42 am

Looks like Fans will be moving down the road as well.

Ah well, it never caught my attention enough for me to worry about it anyway.

by **AntiEntropy** on Tue Sep 02, 2003 10:51 am

LCARS wrote:I also noticed that Zebra Girl made the cut! I smile!

Our years of tireless promotion paid off!

Now let's get Wapsi Squareand The Devil's Pantieson there!

by **LCARS** on Tue Sep 02, 2003 1:02 pm

showler wrote:Looks like Fans will be moving down the road as well.

Ah well, it never caught my attention enough for me to worry about it anyway.

Ooooh, are they moving to Graphic Smash?

Website · by **gwalla** on Tue Sep 02, 2003 5:52 pm

LCARS wrote:
showler wrote:Looks like Fans will be moving down the road as well.

Ah well, it never caught my attention enough for me to worry about it anyway.

Ooooh, are they moving to Graphic Smash?

Looks like it. I'm a little concerned. I wasn't that put off by the fact that T was putting Rip & Teri on GS, since it was only one comic and was originally supposed to be on AdventureStrips anyway. And he's only helping out with dialogue occasionally on The Guardians. But moving another one of his comics to the site he's editing seems...iffy.

by **tunnelsurf** on Tue Sep 02, 2003 7:38 pm

Yeah! Totally!!

by **John T** on Tue Sep 02, 2003 9:13 pm

It's less iffy than you'd think. In reality, he wants to show that he's throwing his full support behind GraphicSmash, such is his confidence in its success.

Also, given, he wanted to make a profit.

by **Chris Crosby** on Tue Sep 02, 2003 9:56 pm

It should probably be noted that (as far as I know) FANS! will be profitable on Keenspot as of the 2nd Quarter 2003 income disbursement in October, and WOULD'VE been profitable in Q1 2003 if not for the much weaker ad revenue in 2001-02, which put it in the hole. In 2003, ad revenues have greatly increased while average bandwidth costs have lowered, which means that even very high-bandwidth-per-page should be profitable for the forseeable future.

Having a high-bandwidth-per-page site does NOT immediately equal unprofitability on Keenspot, generally.

The difference between a high-bandwidth site and a high-bandwidth-per-page site should also be noted. Being high-bandwidth is great because it usually means you're popular and you're generating high revenues. Being high-bandwidth-PER-PAGE is not quite as great, because if the bandwidh on a page costs more than the revenue generated by the ad on that page, that's unprofitable. The good news is that ad revenue increasing and bandwidth costs lowering means that even pages with big giant colorful 150K file size comics on them can be profitable.

by **bunnyThor** on Tue Sep 02, 2003 11:23 pm

LCARS wrote:I also noticed that Zebra Girl made the cut! I smile!

So, where does one go to find out who makes the cut, and when they will be 'Spotted, and such?

And on an unrelated question, I know it's just not a high priority to change what is on the drop-down menu thingie, but it's a big mess. [Goes to check.] Okay, it's not as big of a mess as it once was, but seeing "Cool Cat Studio" hanging around for 2 years after the comic discontinued is a bit creepy. I think the chances of CCS coming "off of hiatus" are only slightly better than the chances of the triumphant return of "Life at Bayside" or an all-Gonterman Guest Artist week at PVP.

There, I've used up my kvetching quota for the month. Carry on all...

by **Q99** on Wed Sep 03, 2003 4:33 am

Zebra Girl? El Goonish Shive? And, judging by a newspost on BmB, Boy Meets Boy?

It appears to me that Keenspot added a very good selection of comics this batch.

by **LCARS** on Wed Sep 03, 2003 9:06 am

bunnyThor wrote:
LCARS wrote:I also noticed that Zebra Girl made the cut! I smile!

So, where does one go to find out who makes the cut, and when they will be 'Spotted, and such?

Either artists of said comics brag about it, Chris/Gav/Teri/Nate drop a hint in the forums, or Newsbox.

I found out about Zebra Girl being spotted by the VERY SUBTLE HINTS that joe dropped here and there.

by **damonk13** on Wed Sep 03, 2003 2:11 pm

Okay, now THAT was funny. ^_^

Nice to see Joe get some well-deserved recognition, tho!

by **Chris Crosby** on Wed Sep 03, 2003 3:01 pm

We don't generally announce new strips to the masses until they've been moved over to our server. But that may change.

by **macclint** on Wed Sep 03, 2003 4:03 pm

I found out about Zebra Girl being spotted by the VERY SUBTLE HINTS that joe dropped here and there.

Poor bastard. I he only knew about the whips, and chains and lime green jello.... :oops:

(sad, really).

Oh crap! I meant to post this in the "special forum"! :roll:

by **LCARS** on Wed Sep 03, 2003 4:34 pm

Heh, yeah, the Keenspotter's forum is funny.

Funny like a howler monkey.

by **Nekomimikun** on Wed Sep 03, 2003 4:49 pm

Chris Crosby wrote:We don't generally announce new strips to the masses until they've been moved over to our server. But that may change.

So, there is going to be a news page going up soon?

by **John T** on Wed Sep 03, 2003 5:01 pm

Chris Crosby wrote:We don't generally announce new strips to the masses until they've been moved over to our server. But that may change.

Well, I'd announce new strips after your got their contracts in the mail and they were confirmed. Announcing just invites would be pointless. But I think it's the former that you had in mind. It has the benefit of hyping up the new feature to build anticipation. Of course, if you hype AFTER they're on the server, you get the benefit of all the new pageviews coming in FROM the hype.

So technically, your old way was more profitable than announcing comics in advance. But the new way is probably what more people want.

by **Chris Crosby** on Wed Sep 03, 2003 6:08 pm

There will be a regularly-updated news section on the homepage soon, yes.

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